Kitchen implement.



No. 847,969 PATBNTED MAR. 19, 1907.

A. C. POWERS. KITCHEN IMPLEMENT.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 5. 1906.

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TITTE sTATEs PATENT oEETeE. ALEXANDER c. POVTITRETFIBIESVILLE, KENTUCKY.

KITCHEN IMPLEMENT.

No. 847,969. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented March 19, 1907. Application filed May 5,1906- i l N 315.392.

To all whom it may concern: oint is a hand-lever 11, and to said hand- Be it known that I, ALEXANDER (l. Powever is pivotally connected a link 12, the up- ERS, a citizen of the United States, residing per end of which is bent at an angle and inat Louisville, in the county of Jefferson and j serted in a mortise in the lever and pivotally State of Kentucky, have invented new and connected thereto at 13. The lower end of useful Improvements in Kitchen Utensils, of the link is provided withia' 'fork'f thearms' l i which the following is a specification. of which are pivotally mounted at 15 on the This invention relates to kitchen utensils; guides 7, as shown in Fig. 1. By the ar and the object in view is to provide a combirangement just described as the levergjl lf is nation article for general use in kitchens, emswung upward the stock 5 is pushed downbodying means for opening cans, squeezing ward, thus forcing the shell 4 over the cone 2 lemons, mashing potatoes, and similar operaand squeezing the lemonl'placed between the tions. cone and shell, the uice escaping through Another object of the invention is to so the openings 6. 7o combine the arts of the device that they The stock 5 is provided at its upper end will not interf re with each other or impair with a handle 16, by means of which the dethe usefulness of the article when such artivice as a whole is manipulated for mashin cle is used for any specific purpose. potatoes. When used for this purpose, the

With the above and other objects in view lever 11 is secured against one side of the the invention consists in the novel construc- Stock 5 by means of a fastener 17, comprising tion, combination, and arrangement of parts a flat head, a hown in Fig, 1, which i rehereinafter more fully described, illustrated, c ivable through a l t 18 in the xpanded and claimed. extremity 19 of the lever 11, the arrange- In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective ment described permitting the lever to be seview of the utensil adjusted foruse as a poi ed t the handle or relea ed therefrom tam-masher and can-opener. Fig. 2 is a verr when it becomes necessary to use the lever 11 tical longitudinal section through the same, in operating the lemon-squeezer. showing the manner in which the device is Extendin npward fr m the hell 4 is a used f r sque zing lem srod 20, havin one end secured to the shell Referring t0 the drawings, 1 designates the and the other end deflected inward and sebase of the utensil, which has a flat lower suru ed t0 the st ck 5, M unted upon the rod face to be used as a potato-mashing head and 20 is an adj tabl c llar 21, which may be a slotted squeezing-cone 2, extend ng upheld at any point on the rod by means of a ward from the base and adapted to enter a tew 22. The collar 21 is provided 0 corresponding cavity 3 in a superimposed with an outwardly-extending cutter 23 for shell member 4, of conical shape, mounted l th pur f opemng a an, Secured to upon and carried by the stock or shank 5 of j th h ll 4 i a center i 24 hi h t d h impl nt I outward from the rod 20, and in the opera- The shell member 4 is provided with a cirtion of the device as a can-opener the pin 24 5 cular series of discharge-openings 6, eXtendis driven through the center of the end of the ing entirely around the same and opening can, after which the cutter 23 is driven out radially therethrough and also preferthrough the top of the can adjacent to the ably inclined, as shown in Fig. 2, said openl outer edge thereof, after which the impleings allowing the juice squeezed from the j ment as a whole is turned upon the can, the no lemon to escape. cutter 23 serving to out the tin top of the can In order to provide for operating the lemon, adjacent to the outer edge thereof. The squeezer, the base 1 is provided at diametcutter 23 may be adjusted to any desired dlS- rically opposite points withupstanding guides tance from the center pm 24, according to 7, preferably of dovetailed shape in crossthe size of the can be1n operated upon. section or provided with reversely-inchned It Wlll be apparent that the utensil hereedges, as shown in Fig. 1. The shell 4 is inabove described is susceptible of considerprovided at opposite sides with runner eX- able change 1n the form, proportion, and tensions 8, which are grooved, as shown at 9, l minor details of construction which may acto fit and slide upon the guides 7 as the shell is moved upward and downward by the stock 5.

from the principle or sacrificing any of the Pivotally connected to the stock 5 at the advantages of the invention.

cordingly be resorted to without departing no I claim- 1. A device of the class described comprising abase having upstanding guides, a squeezing-shell having runner extensions working 5 up and down on said guides, a stock extending upward from the squeezing-shell, a lever pivotally connected to said stock, and a link interposed between said lever and guides, substantially as described.

2. A device of the class described comprising a solid base, a squeezing-shell movable toward and away from the base, a stock exsenses;

tending upward from the squeezing-shell, a lever pivotally connected to said stock, a link interposed between said lever and the base, and fastening means for securing the lever to the stock In testimony whereof I ai'i'ix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ALEXANDER C. PONVERS.

itnesses JOHN F. WiLsnAx, STEPHEN O. Luann. 

